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The Ingredients: A Guided Tour of the Elements
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On the Heavens and on Generation and Corruption
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On the Nature of the Universe
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3.97 avg rating — 14,585 ratings
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Alchemy Tried in the Fire: Starkey, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chymistry
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4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
"Van Helmont took on the classicist 'four elements' breakdown."
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Atoms and Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution
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4.36 avg rating — 22 ratings
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A Chemical History of a Candle
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3.94 avg rating — 648 ratings
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Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
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3.81 avg rating — 2,342 ratings
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Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution
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4.02 avg rating — 960 ratings
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Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
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4.13 avg rating — 1,300 ratings
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Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks
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4.26 avg rating — 676 ratings
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The Planet in a Pebble: A Journey into Earth's Deep History
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3.80 avg rating — 249 ratings
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A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
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3.94 avg rating — 4,554 ratings
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Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
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3.98 avg rating — 788 ratings
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Annals of the Former World
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4.37 avg rating — 4,362 ratings
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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
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3.91 avg rating — 2,581 ratings
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The Earth Machine: The Science of a Dynamic Planet
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4.05 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Ground Beneath Us: From the Oldest Cities to the Last Wilderness, What Dirt Tells Us About Who We Are
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3.88 avg rating — 209 ratings
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Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth
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3.95 avg rating — 647 ratings
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Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
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4.05 avg rating — 1,604 ratings
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Sand: The Never-Ending Story
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3.99 avg rating — 195 ratings
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The Secret Life of Dust: From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, the Big Consequences of Little Things
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3.68 avg rating — 442 ratings
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A World From Dust: How the Periodic Table Shaped Life
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4.41 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Life's Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable
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4.03 avg rating — 526 ratings
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Making Eden: How Plants Transformed a Barren Planet
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3.66 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Soil Grown Tall: The Epic Saga of Life from Earth
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Geology and Plant Life: The Effects of Landforms and Rock Types on Plants
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3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Marschner's Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants
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4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History
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4.05 avg rating — 647 ratings
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Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
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4.06 avg rating — 285 ratings
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The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health
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4.28 avg rating — 973 ratings
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The Science of Compost: Life, Death and Decay in the Garden
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The Soul of Soil: A Soil-Building Guide for Master Gardeners and Farmers, 4th Edition
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4.06 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy
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4.27 avg rating — 718 ratings
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The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
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4.15 avg rating — 1,436 ratings
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Regenerative Soil: The Science & Solutions - the 2nd Edition
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Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature
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3.72 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
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3.97 avg rating — 628 ratings
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Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World
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4.39 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat
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3.69 avg rating — 86 ratings
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The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
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4.22 avg rating — 2,324 ratings
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Phosphorus: Past and Future
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4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The World's Greatest Fix: A History of Nitrogen and Agriculture
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Cycles of Soil: Carbon, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Sulfur, Micronutrients, Second Edition
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Earthly Materials: Journeys Through Our Bodies' Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations
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3.58 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Slime: A Natural History
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3.37 avg rating — 333 ratings
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
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4.32 avg rating — 51,111 ratings
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Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
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4.38 avg rating — 20,728 ratings
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Plant Resins: Chemistry, Evolution, Ecology, and Ethnobotany
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Wind: How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land
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Firmament: The Hidden Science of Weather, Climate Change and the Air That Surrounds Us
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4.27 avg rating — 626 ratings
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An Ocean of Air: Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere
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4.16 avg rating — 579 ratings
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The Invention of Air
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3.82 avg rating — 3,299 ratings
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The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
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4.36 avg rating — 4,632 ratings
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The Dance of Air and Sea: How Oceans, Weather, and Life Link Together
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3.50 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations
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3.71 avg rating — 118 ratings
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The Cloudspotter's Guide
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4.13 avg rating — 2,836 ratings
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It's a Gas: The Sublime and Elusive Elements That Expand Our World
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3.89 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere
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3.91 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World's Smells
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4.05 avg rating — 303 ratings
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Urban Smellscapes
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A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen
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3.88 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World
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4.13 avg rating — 2,909 ratings
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Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
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The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
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4.18 avg rating — 5,974 ratings
"“Energy: all life on Earth lives off a voltage with the strength of a lightning bolt.”"
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Burning Planet: The Story of Fire Through Time
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3.83 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes
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4.04 avg rating — 581 ratings
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The Fire within the Eye
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3.54 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
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4.27 avg rating — 8,903 ratings
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Land on Fire: The New Reality of Wildfire in the West
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4.05 avg rating — 222 ratings
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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
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4.33 avg rating — 11,572 ratings
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Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy
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4.03 avg rating — 1,756 ratings
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The Year Yellowstone Burned: A Twenty-Five-Year Perspective
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4.19 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change
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4.09 avg rating — 139 ratings
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H20: A Biography of Water
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4.02 avg rating — 317 ratings
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Water and Life: The Unique Properties of H2O
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Water: A Very Short Introduction
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3.73 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
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3.82 avg rating — 2,018 ratings
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Waters of the World: the story of the scientists who unravelled the mysteries of our seas, glaciers, and atmosphere and made the planet whole
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3.69 avg rating — 111 ratings
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The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
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4.22 avg rating — 2,701 ratings
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Planet Ocean: A Story of Life, the Sea, and Dancing to the Fossil Record
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4.40 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One
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4.27 avg rating — 1,310 ratings
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Hypersea: Life on Land
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4.32 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Acid-Base, Fluids and Electrolytes Made Ridiculously Simple
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4.31 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
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4.10 avg rating — 4,265 ratings
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How To Read Water
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3.95 avg rating — 2,216 ratings
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Waves and Beaches: The Powerful Dynamics of Sea and Coast
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4.11 avg rating — 129 ratings
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The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
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4.19 avg rating — 5,018 ratings
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Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It
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Ice Rivers
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The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
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4.29 avg rating — 6,127 ratings
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Crucibles: The Story of Chemistry from Ancient Alchemy to Nuclear Fission
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Creations Of Fire: Chemistry's Lively History From Alchemy To The Atomic Age
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3.92 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Nature's Building Blocks: An A-Z Guide to the Elements
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4.25 avg rating — 421 ratings
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Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
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4.50 avg rating — 8,335 ratings
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The 100 Most Important Chemical Compounds: A Reference Guide
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Coming of Age in the Milky Way
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The Reenchantment of the World
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Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth: Reading Gary Snyder and Dogen in an Age of Ecological Crisis
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Hunger Mountain: A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape
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